It's been a long time since I had a week like that. I'd have to go back into my late teens or early twenties I'd think, when I was working three jobs at the same time, one of them full time, two part time.

The full time job was tennis court maintenance dude and we worked odd shifts, either 6-3 or 2-11. We got an hour for lunch, so it worked out ok.

The part time job was bussing tables just before I started bartending, but I was doing that as much as possible. The other part time job was working at a brewery on the bottling line and it was a hideous shift - 2 am until 11 am.

There were quite a few shifts where I had some overlap and was actually being paid at two jobs at the same time. There were also two instances where I worked better than 24 hours in a 24 hour period because of that.

This goes back just over 25 years ago when I was a wage worm. One of the guys was going on vacation for 2 weeks & I was asked if I wanted to work overtime, I had no vacation time so what the hell so I did. 80 hrs. for the week & 160 hrs. for the 10 days. By the mid 2nd week I was feeling it & on the last day I was fried!

I worked two full time jobs at one point from May 1996 through January 1997. One was generally 42-45 while the other was 40. Just about drove me insane. Most weekdays I'd go to work at 5:30 in the morning, leave at 2:30, go home, change, rest for a little bit, then go to work from 4:00-11:00 or 12:00. I usually had one day off at the night job and would generally leave at 8:00 on Fridays. Then I'd work 10am-8pm on Saturdays and 4pm-12pm on Sundays. The paychecks seemed nice at the time, but considering I was making $6.60-$7.50 an hour at each it's absolutely crazy in retrospect.

I worked 50-55 hours a week for 16 months at a ****** car rental joint, which also took its toll.

Now, I work 37.5 hours per week, rarely work a minute more than that, and make more money than any other job I've had. Life is good.

I work 52.5 hour weeks at least 3 or 4 times a year to cover for vacation time for one of my coworkers. But usually it's 37.5.

I couldn't give an exact number of hours, but there was a week in college when I was working 2 full-time summer jobs in addition to taking a class. I was transferring from one job to another, so for a couple days I'd work 3pm-11pm at Shoney's, then midnight-8am at a sandwich shop, then go to class from 9am-noon. Those were some rough days.

My first job out of college was at a chemical lab, and I remember working weeks straight of up to 12-13 hours a day (probably more) just because we were overbooked with expiring samples and rushwork. I was salaried (and low salary at that), but I don't remember minding it at all since I was unfettered by any wife/girlfriend, kids, or even collecting (1992).

Well it's over. I've been given the opportunity to come in tomorrow at noon.

I'm salaried as well - but I was fortunate enough that they hired me as a freelancer for the evenings because I was bascialy double booked on two separate jobs and they were going to farm one of them out but they couldn't find anyone (they generally don't like hiring their own employees...).